A drink of spirits.
1809. Those recondite beverages, cock-tail, stone-fence, and sherry-cobbler.—W. Irving, ‘Knickerbockers,’ p. 241.
1847. See BAREFOOTED.
1898. [He] sometimes drank thirty stone-fences a day.—N.Y. Sun, March 8.
A drink of spirits.
1809. Those recondite beverages, cock-tail, stone-fence, and sherry-cobbler.—W. Irving, ‘Knickerbockers,’ p. 241.
1847. See BAREFOOTED.
1898. [He] sometimes drank thirty stone-fences a day.—N.Y. Sun, March 8.
